Chapter XXIII: Metaphysics and Science
The next morning, both Li Xinran and Li Fusi woke up late, and they no longer had to run around for food. Lifus extorted several tons of grain from the Immortal Country, most of which was corn and wheat, as well as some rice and sorghum, but unfortunately there were no vegetables, in fact, there were only these kinds of grain in the granary of the Immortal Country.
After the nuclear war, the crops grown in the fields of the world are no longer edible, and the food that cannot be stored for a long time is gradually disappearing from people's tables, and even some high-tech granaries with simulated vacuum technology cannot prevent the deterioration and decay of vegetables, fruits and meat.
"It's good that you repaired the water purifier, otherwise you wouldn't have had breakfast today." Li Xinran said to Li Fus.
The water saved for a day yesterday was used to clean Lin Xuexi's body and wash his hair, and the water purifier filtered out about two liters of water overnight, barely enough to make breakfast.
Because of Lin Xuexi's affairs, the two were busy until late, and they fell asleep in a hurry without eating, Li Xinran slept on the table, and Li Fusi made a bunk.
"Wow! It's so fragrant too! Li Xinran held a delicate ceramic bowl, scooped the last bit of cornmeal porridge into her mouth with a silver spoon, and sighed intoxicatedly, and before this, she had already eliminated three bowls, and it was hard to imagine how her thin stomach could eat so much.
Since she was born, she has never eaten anything other than Guanyin fruit and grass roots, if not counting the breast milk she pumped as a baby.
"Don't put sugar in this porridge next time, we don't have much sugar, let's keep it for her, the patient needs sugar." Li Fusi said and put down the bowl in his hand and glanced at Lin Xuexi.
Lifus only ate one bowl and didn't eat it again, he didn't have too high requirements for food, and he was never picky.
There are not only human gene pools in the Alliance, but also gene pools of various animals and plants, and these species that disappeared after the Great War have been cultivated and cultivated in major experimental bases, including almost all the ingredients originally owned on the earth, so Lifus has eaten a lot of good things.
But Lifus only ate one bowl of cornmeal porridge not because he thought the ingredients were low-grade or had a bad taste, but simply because he wasn't hungry.
Yes, he wasn't hungry, he hadn't eaten for a long time, but he was still not hungry, even the bowl of porridge just now he could have avoided drinking, but he didn't want Li Xinran to feel like a weirdo.
Why aren't you hungry? Li Fusi felt that it should be related to the Dragon and Tiger Great Dan he had swallowed before, and his current situation was very consistent with the "Bigu" realm mentioned by the Taoists, and he wondered if he should take the time to analyze his problems.
"What? Are you starting to be eccentric now? Li Xinran is always used to bringing the topic of conversation into the ditch.
"Do you want to deal with a sick person?" Li Fusi knew that Li Xinran was casually teasing, so he was also casually perfunctory, and now he was more concerned about what was going on with his body, so he sat there and found the two scriptures found in the cave from the hard drive of his brain.
The Sutra of Contemplation is an entry-level Taoist exercise with an easy-to-understand text, which is about breathing, breathing, meditation and inner vision. Cultivators need to meditate, intersect with the four hearts, look at the nose, the nose and the mind, and the mind at ease, so as to achieve a state of clear mind and introspection.
Lifus was going to try it, but the meditation posture was strange, and he didn't want to cause any misunderstanding, so he went out to find a gentle hillside and began to meditate according to the method in the book.
Then he suddenly entered a strange state, as if his consciousness had detached from his body, and he was perceiving himself from the perspective of a spectator, in which his consciousness was like a ray of light shining through the meridians and points in his body.
Originally, the five internal organs and the large intestine and small intestine in the body became gray, and what was brighter and more obvious was the eight veins of the Qi Sutra and some acupoints, a gray-black energy mass was entrenched in his dantian, and clusters of the same gray-black energy were scattered everywhere in his body, repairing his wounds that had almost healed.
However, according to the book, it would take at least two years of cultivation for more than two years to reach his current state of seeing the mind and contemplating at ease, and he was only cultivating for the first time, and he had not been exposed to any cultivation methods before, which was simply incredible.
This exercise is probably to achieve a state of self-forgetfulness that is transcendent from the outside of things by regulating the body's metabolism and the flow of qi and blood, which Lifus feels seems to be able to be explained in this way.
As for the Taoist Sutra, most of the contents were condescending and difficult to understand, and Lifus had to go to the ancient books and documents word by word to slowly compare and scrutinize, although he had the largest library in the world in his head, coupled with his strong learning ability, it still took him a long time to fully understand and integrate the meaning of these sentences in the Taoist Sutra.
The exercises described in the Tao Sutra are divided into three major realms, namely refining and refining qi, refining qi and transforming gods, and refining gods and returning to emptiness.
With my essence, it is the essence of all things in heaven and earth, for example, ten thousand waters can be combined into one water. With my God, the God of heaven and earth and all things, for example, ten thousand fires can be combined into one fire. With my spirit, for example, gold is a thing, and it can be combined with different gold and made into one gold. With my soul, the soul of all things in heaven and earth, and the soul of all things in heaven and earth, such as wood as a thing, can be born into a wood from different wood. Then all things in heaven and earth are my spirit, my spirit, my soul. Who died? Who is born? This is the method of "combining the great creation in one", which is the essence of refining the gods and returning the void.
This is the interpretation of the three realms of Taoism in the "Wenshi Zhenjing", "Wenshi Zhenjing" is written by Mr. Wenshi, Mr. Wenshi is Hangu Guan Yinxi, he got the true biography of Li Er, but he only cultivated to the first level of the realm in his life, and then there was no progress, these cultivation experiences in the "Wenshi Zhenjing" all came from the Taoist scriptures, but the cultivation method did not mention a little.
Refining and refining qi, according to the explanation in the book, is to take the essence of all things in the world for one's own use, turn it into "Yuan Qi" and leave it in the dantian qi sea and various meridians and points in the body. These descriptions are very similar to the realm of Nanhua Zhenren's "taking the majestic all things as one".
These Yuan Qi are indestructible, indissolvable, incomprehensible, and can even come out of the body.
The cultivation method of refining and refining qi is to first enter a state of extreme tranquility, that is, to contemplate the state that Li Fusi has just reached in the sutra, and then run the Yuan Qi in the body along the meridians in a large and small Zhou Tian manner, so as to absorb more Yuan Qi and gradually increase the storage capacity of the dantian and the meridians and acupoints in various places.
In the end, you don't have to stick to your posture when you are in a state of contemplation in the Sutra, and those with higher talent can practice by eating and sleeping.
Livers decided to give it another try, after all, he already had a good start. However, he didn't know much about the names and specific locations of the meridians and acupoints, so he found a few ancient medical books such as "Lingshu", "Su Wen", etc., compared the position on his body, and began to cultivate luck.
Once Yuan Qi ran in the meridians, the gray-black gaseous energy in the dantian began to swim in the meridians, just like high-pressure water vapor passed through a thin and soft plastic tube, and the meridians were inflated.
Li Fusi endured the severe pain and ran according to the method in the book for a week, and had to stop and gasp for breath, sweat had already wet his clothes, but he was still very relieved, the amount of this Yuan Qi in his body had far exceeded the standard of refining and refining qi described in the Dao Sutra, and Mr. Wen Shi had taken nearly a hundred years to barely reach it, which may not mean that he was a cultivation genius with outstanding talents, because he knew that his current background all came from that strange pill, But at least it shows that he was lucky.
In addition, to Lifus's surprise, he found that the radiation index around his body became lower and lower with his luck, just like when he discovered the elixir, they seemed to be absorbing radiation, and after these radiations entered his body, they fused with those gray-black energy clusters, and that energy also became stronger because of absorbing these radiations, although these newly added energies were negligible, but Lifus clearly felt that they were just increasing.
Radiation is not a real substance, it is only the early and after-effect radiation contamination that remains in the covered area after the explosion of a nuclear bomb, and it is a physical phenomenon formed by the continuous emitting of high-energy rays from radioactive materials.
However, the absorption of radiation alone is not enough to continuously reduce the radiation index of a certain area, because the radioactive material will still emit radiation in a steady stream unless it is absorbed along with the radioactivity of the radioactive material itself.
Most of the nuclear bombs used in the Third World War are particle nuclear bombs, which have very serious after-effect radiation pollution, and hydrogen * bombs are more troublesome to maintain, and various countries do not have too many reserves, but even if they are hydrogen * bombs without after-effect pollution, they will cause radiation pollution because they need to be detonated by atomic * bombs.
Lifus decided to find a way to open the underground warehouse at the nuclear test site, which contained the oldest radioactive elements used for nuclear testing, uranium-235 and plutonium-239, which could be used to test whether his practice could completely absorb the radioactivity of the elements.
What excites him the most is that he was still worried about the fact that his body would not survive long due to a large amount of radiation, but now there is no need to be afraid, those radiations should have turned into Yuan Qi, become a part of that energy, and make him stronger.
Wait a minute, a flash of inspiration flashed in Li Fusi's mind, Yuan Qi particles, Yuan Qi particles, when Zou Dufeng thought of this name, was it just because he wanted to take a Chinese-style name?
Refining and refining qi, as the name suggests, is to transform essence into Yuan Qi.
There are many substances in the world that can be called fine, but when we look at the universe, the only thing that can be called fine is the matter itself.
In the universe, most of them are dark matter and dark energy, accounting for more than 96% of the total amount of matter in the universe, and these substances that we commonly use, that is, what we often call everything in this world, air, viruses, stars, humans, atoms, etc., account for less than 4%, which can be described as the essence of the universe.
In the Standard Model, of all the particles that make up everything in the world, the Higgs boson is the fundamental particle that gives all matter its mass, color, and form, and is called the "God particle", which is the essence of the essence.
The graviton that reacts with the Higgs boson in Zou's fusion is a more fundamental particle that exists in all matter in the universe, even in dark matter, antimatter and dark energy, and the resulting Yuanqi particle is a particle with a smaller and more regular energy density than all the basic particles in the Standard Model.
So, could the first level of Taoism's realm be a way and process of refining and absorbing the Higgs bosons in matter, and then transforming them into Yuanqi particles in the body? Lifus guessed boldly.
If this speculation is true, the first realm of Taoist exercises is actually to constantly carry out the Zou particle reaction in the body, and then store a large number of Yuan Qi particles produced by the reaction to heal the enemy and carry out a larger-scale reaction.
Lifus imagined himself like a walking particle battery, and cultivation was like charging a battery, the difference was that his battery could be recharged and used repeatedly, and the capacity would become larger after each charge.
Is this a coincidence, or has Zou Dufeng discovered the mystery of the human body in the end? Einstein also seemed to express some inexplicable words on his deathbed, could it be that he had also discovered the secret of particles? Judging from the height reached by Einstein's experimental research at that time, he should not have been able to touch such a profound subject, but looking at the history of modern scientific development, we will be surprised to find that many academic giants and pioneers of science will more or less express their interest in metaphysics when they reach the end of their lives.
Lifus fell into deep thought.